4 d. ago India's Modi and Japan's Ishiba agree to expand ties. Here's what they said

India and Japan have agreed to further expand ties and deepen cooperation in areas such as security, economy, clean energy and human resources

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5 d. ago Households face higher bills for years because of clean energy bid, campaigners warn

Push for net zero energy grid by 2030 risks leaving consumers paying higher bills for longer, says group

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6 d. ago £8,000 boost for Scottish communities teed up at charity golf day

Annual golf fundraiser delivers big win for community projects across Scotland

Economics

6 d. ago ANDREW NEIL: It's stifling growth, killing industry and making households poorer. That's why Net Zero is the most costly self

For those deluded enough to believe claims that renewable energy is the key to a glorious future of clean, cheap energy, have a look at the plight of Orsted, the world's biggest wind farm developer.

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9 d. ago Don’t let Donald Trump undermine your faith in the climate fight | Gina McCarthy

The president’s fossil-fuel obsession can’t stop global progress, writes the former Environmental Protection Agency headOver the past decade, the United States has turned technologies into tools that strengthened our economy, delivered good-paying union jobs, cleaned up our air and water, conserved our precious natural resources, and saved families money all across our country. Yet now the country is choosing to cede that leadership, letting China dominate and control the clean-energy market across the world. It’s no surprise that people are scratching their heads, wondering what happened.Our president is obsessed with fossil fuels. He wants to resuscitate what everyone knows is a dying coal sector while turning a blind eye to the health, environmental, and economic downsides of the climate crisis. Coupled with inconsistent threats of increased tariffs against virtually all our allies, he has isolated the US and amplified threats to global security.Gina McCarthy is the managing co-c...

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1 week ago West Lothian town among first to see plans for national 20mph speed limits

The speed limit through the town centre would be cut back in the first tier of communities which will see lower speed limits as part of a Scottish Government strategy.

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1 week ago Clean energy developer Invenergy pledges £14m for Scottish communities

Invenergy, one of the world’s largest privately held energy developers, owners, and operators of clean energy solutions, will invest £14 million in East Ayrshire communities.

Economics

2 w. ago Why our broken food system remains a climate disaster: ‘broiling the planet to stuff our faces’

Author Michael Grunwald reckons with the challenge of food-based climate emissions in his new book We Are Eating the EarthRidding ourselves of fossil fuels has been a tortuously ponderous process and, in the current political era, one that can seem to be in full retreat. But we do have the tools to run our cities, vehicles and industries on clean energy and even through the murk of vested interest, the contours of a post-fossil world are becoming clearer.Our system of producing food, though, is in a relative stone age when it comes to the climate crisis. We continue to raze vast tracts of carbon-rich forests for crop and grazing land thereby creating, by some estimates, as much as a third of all global planet-heating emissions. Continue reading...

Society

4 w. ago Expanding carbon capture project ‘marks significant moment for Welsh industry’

‘This is another significant moment for the growing clean energy industry in Wales,’ Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens said.

Politics